all true, but you cannot hold a job with that approach. you will be fired.

this works well for people who have agency and can do this stuff for fun or have time before they lose their home to find a revenue stream.

that is gender agnostic. as s man i can tell you I’ve been excluded from most opportunities because i am not socially skilled.

on the flip, I’ve neen told by appartment owners that i can’t live there because he felt the other renters (women, all) eould be uncomfortable with a man as a neighbor.

i did not go to the equal opportunity organization to complain. besides, as a man i’d be laughed at and dismissed anyway.

Women currently dominate the job market and educational institutions both as students and teachers. women get the vast majority of grants and discounts for college.

it’s really men who are being discriminated against because “patriarchy”. i am an ex-feminist, btw.

< sips coffee, nods slightly >

Anybody else want to ditch society and go out in the wilderness and create a combine?

The billionaires are turning us into powerless mindless serfs.

you wield that brush of blame much too wildly. it’s still a minority who support that shit. his “victory” was engineered by a well organized group of neo-nazis spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and aided by vote rigging.

sounds about right. many of them are able ro camouflage as upstanding, intellectual businessmen, too.

yeah, i figure most westerners didn’t learn about what we did to both China and Japan from 1800 - 1930 (approximately). i learned it in elementary school, but i think “leadership” seriously dumbed things down since 1982.

that’s just a feeling, right? there’s no prior experience that could trigger that, right? *nudge, nudge. wink, wink.*

Anyway, miraculously i haven’t been hit with the age-wall yet, bur when i do, Discord will lose a user.

in response (To the AI): what was your first clue?

we (America) will never recover from the humiliation inflicted by this moron.

no, i didn’t. statistical analysis also shows it is very likely Elon changed the votes in several states, so I’m unconvinced a majority was achieved through legal means.

he just did. no more emissions regulations on power plants. welcome back to 1965.

unless you have the savvy to block everything yourself, yes.

sarcasm not necessary here. this is exactly where this is going.

anybody know when this started? i don’t have my tv connected to the network, and have not updated the firmware in 2 r 3 years.

surveillance for thee, privacy for me. typical.

unfortunately, if you are big enough as a corporation, by definition you are that kind of organization, or you would not be where you are.

we are ruled by sociopaths who crave power wealth and fame. we are doomed.

I should probably try what the O.P. did as I also have an ASUS router with Merlin. However, in my case, I have a Synology NAS and I set up VPN on that and use that server as my VPN. I have a certificate-based sign-in through a single port on the router.

I use a Public VPN service when I’m out and about and then connect to my VPN when I need to do stuff on my network, Like syncing my Joplin notes.

I see. From what you wrote, it sounds like you’re saying I need to be a revolutionary and go out and fuck with people. I’m not ready to do that on my own.

Further, I don’t have a strong social network of support. Anything I would do would be a lone wolf operation. And I don’t have the training or experience for it. Lone Wolf operations fail and do not change the world.

Plus I have a child who’s not old enough to live in the world on his own. I am not going to take away the support he needs by throwing my life away.

Dealing with a surveillance state like the United States of America requires a whole lot more finesse and sophistication than you seem to think is necessary.

If you’re paying them, why do they need to know your location to accept it? We’re in a capitalist system. Money is money.